English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 24

Well! she laid down her little golden head without fear; and whist! down came the axe, and it was off.

Who acts: woman · What happens: lay down, come off · To what, where: little golden head, whist

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 laid	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laid	nsubj
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 laid	compound:prt
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl:unmarked
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 fear	case
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 whist	cc
14	whist	whist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 whist	punct
16	down	down	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laid	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 axe	det
19	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 off	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 off	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 off	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 off	cop
24	off	off	ADP	_	17 came	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	past	woman	woman's little golden head				without fear	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come off	past	woman not said here	whist				down property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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